Product Description

Product Description

Russell Hobbs design household items with real people in mind, so when they created the Easy Toaster they considered everything a toast lover could want. The space-saving design means you can have the benefit of a four-slice toaster but in the sleek format of a two-slice toaster, and when combined with the hot pockets toast keeps warmer for longer.

Space-saving keep warm pockets

Having pockets on the side means you can enjoy four slices of warm toast from a two-slice toaster – just toast your first two slices and pop them in the warming pockets while the next lot are toasting. The keep warm draws actually keep toast 30 per cent warmer compared to leaving your toast on a plate, which makes the toaster great if you haven't much room or only need to toast four slices occasionally.

Frozen bread and cancel functions

With the frozen bread function you can toast bread straight from the freezer. You don't even have to adjust the browning control away from your favoured setting: when selecting the option, toasting time will be altered automatically to give the same degree of browning you get with unfrozen bread. The cancel function allows you to cancel toasting mid cycle.

About the Russell Hobbs brand

The Russell Hobbs brand has been synonymous with quality, style, and innovation for over 60 years. Founded in 1952 by Bill Russell and Peter Hobbs, the brand has led the way by introducing products which offer real consumer benefits and technological advancements. Such is the strength of the Russell Hobbs brand, it has won numerous awards and product accreditations from leading institutes.

The Easy Toaster features a sleek and stylish design to suit any kitchen. view larger

Adjustable browning control

This allows you to select the level of browning you prefer, assuring your toast is always cooked to your desired consistency.

High lift

The high lift feature allows you to bring the lever up so that your toast pops out high enough for you to take it out easily.

Sleek and stylish

The Easy Toaster is as stylish as it is functional. It has a lovely curved design, and contemporary matte black casing. Its flat back means it can stand flush against the wall so it's space saving and looks tidy too.

Easy to clean

By their very nature, toasters can be tricky gadgets to clean. That's why the Easy Toaster has removable pockets and a removable crumb tray, so you can get rid of breadcrumbs and grease with ease.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

A decade or so ago no one cared what a kitchen appliance looked like, it was there to do a job and design was secondary. In this day and age though look and feel is more important but trading those looks for functionality is a tightrope we have to walk.

Luckily, this toaster manages to strike the perfect balance.

The toaster is extremely slim and takes up a lot less room than you would expect and it has the simple design of one side being completely flat so it sits snugly against the kitchen wall.

Like every toaster i've ever come across, it's still impossible to empty the crumb tray without a few crumbs going everywhere but after a dozen toasters in my lifetime which have all had the same failing i've given up on that design fault ever being solved!

One thing it does win brownie points on is with the warming pockets on the side so you can keep 2 slices warm while another two toast and the 'toast from frozen' option also works pretty well at the simple press of a button.

All in all, it's very well made and everything about it just screams 'quality' and i'm happy with it sitting in my kitchen

This is a great toaster in the respect of it has a single slot that you can easily fit 2 normal slices of bread into or if you have artisan (fancy) bread and it's wider than most then you will easily be able to toast one slice at a time. The pockets for keeping toast warm are a great idea. There are 4 of us in our family and it means that we can all sit down to warm toast at the same time.Nice simple controls where you can thaw frozen bread and a dial you can change how toasted you want your toast. Nice blue light in the handle also so all looks good and works good.My one gripe (and it's a fairly big one) is that the plastics they have used to make the body of the toaster are not great and never look really clean. They are clean it's just not a polished surface and will scratch easily.If you don't mind that much how it looks and are not a clean freak then this is a great toaster for you. If you are a wee bit fussy and I admit that I am then look somewhere else.

There is no getting around that this is a very stylish toaster, definitely the thing for someone who is looking for a kitchen that screams good taste as well as...uh...good tasting. And it does it's job well, producing evenly cooked toast.

But it's just a toaster, right? How hard can that be? So what am I really paying for?

Well, other than the look of it, the Russel Hobbs 19990 Easy Toaster (is there such a thing as a "Difficult Toaster"?) has two handy compartments on the front which you can keep a couple of slices of hot toast in while the next two are in the machine, and it will keep them warm until you are ready for them. However these compartments are not heated by anything other than the toasting function, so don't expect to come back twenty minutes later to hot toast!

The high lift feature is handy, especially when toasting pitta bread or crumpets or something small, allowing you to get at them without having to turn the thing over or start fiddling around trying to fish out your breakfast whilst simultaneously trying not to burn or electrocute yourself! The construction of the toaster with one long pocket instead of two shorter seperate ones mean that it is doubly suited for things like pitta bread which in the past I have had to toast twice - an end of it sticking out of the top of the toaster each time! However this also comes with another drawback: there is no warming rack for croissants etc. Finally I found that the outside of the toaster, particularly the back, did get quite hot after use. Not dangerously so, but this toaster clearly doesn't feature cool-wall.

But is it space saving? It's slim that's true, but it is very long and in my experience that kind of space is what is at a premium in a crowded kitchen.Read more ›

This toaster does what it says it will do -- it toasts bread, keeps two (normal-sized) slices of toast warm while you make more, and it's easy to clean. The browning control is good. The pop-up mechanism is not very strong and for most slices I find I have to lift the toast manually. The slot is average in width and copes well enough with smaller crumpets and medium-thick slices, but not with anything really thick.

The shape of this toaster is unusual - on the plus side, it's great for toasting unusually shaped bread as it has one long, undivided slot instead of two. You can fit in three small slices at once, or one long slice (for example, from a large round country-style loaf). On the minus side, it size and shape, and the need to have the keep-warm pockets accessible, will mean that it won't fit easily in a lot of kitchens. It would be ideal on a kitchen island or breakfast bar. It doesn't work that well on a worktop under cabinets.

The keep-warm pockets are fine provided you only want to keep warm fairly thin slices from a standard loaf, and on the whole I think if you use that feature often, you would probably be better off with a four-slice toaster. And be warned, it's a plastic body, so if like me you have toast tongs with a magnet to keep them on the toaster, that won't work here.